Sentence examples for language of legislation from inspiring English sources

That would allow them to comply with a three-day waiting period, required by the State Constitution, to allow the public and lawmakers to review the language of legislation before it is voted upon.

The law on rape and the minimising of domestic violence are the paradigm examples of this perspective; the law is gendered, especially in relation to violence, and the new gender-neutral language of legislation does not fully disguise this fact.

But the tactic of sanitizing the language of legislation was recognized even in 1981, as a Shreveport Times editorial perceptively noted after the passage of Louisiana Act 685: What is now to be seen is whether or not the semantics will play in court.... What the ACLU will have to prove... is that the term "scientific creationism" is a semantic sham, and that... it... is, in fact, religion...

(NEWSFLASH: the actual bill language of legislation is often long and boring and hard to understand).

In the language of this legislation, these people are called 'covered persons'.

The waiting period is supposed to allow lawmakers, and the public, time to review the language of proposed legislation.

Susan M. Stout, vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, said the language of the legislation was "extremely broad, very open-ended and not very specific".

He said that the language of the legislation, which he supported, "had the right effect" and that the "Egyptians have focused effectively" on the tunnels issue.

Still, abortion rights supporters asserted that the language of the legislation was so vague that it could outlaw other, more commonly used abortion procedures.

Administration officials and Democratic and Republican lawmakers said that a tentative agreement had been reached but that the language of the legislation was still being completed.

"While I know there was a good-faith effort to improve the regulation, the plain language of the legislation can only be read as a Christmas tree of decorative gifts to the banking industry," he said.